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EDMONTON NORMAL SCHOOL pRinciPflL’s messflGe Although events tend to follow general patterns, the happenings them¬ selves are varied. The final results of the intercourse between staff and stu¬ dents at this Normal School during the year 1941-42 will in the main be similar to those of the years preceding, but by force of circumstances pro¬ cedures during the present year are different from those of other years and the resultant of the education acquired during the present may be of a distinctive character. The change from the carefully planned, adequately equipped, and well cared for Normal School building to the Garneau Public School building called for the exercise of considerable resource on the part of the Staff and co-operation on the part of the students. With the completion of the addition to the present building the educational program has developed at least as smoothly and in some respects to a greater degree of singleness of purpose than in former years. The sending out for eleven weeks of students in relays to “man” the rural schools that were unable to secure teachers presented the problem of making these experiences educationally significant to the students after their return. Although it is not possible to fill the gaps so incurred in the Normal School course, modified procedures to meet professional deficiencies discovered in themselves by the students, and the greater degree of directness and profession¬ al purpose acquired from their experiences will go far to make these groups effective and stimulating teachers. The number of requests from ratepayers and School Boards for these students to return after graduation indicates that their efforts were earnestly educative and not merely a time-serving routine. The loss of three stimulating and effective instructors in the course of a month was little less than a shock to both Staff and students. Appreciation of cheir services in the past and pleasant memories of our associations make our good wishes fervent to Captain G. M. Dunlop, Flying Officer J. C. Jonason, and Captain A. L. Doucette. We are fortunate in their successors, Mr. A. W. Reeves and Mr. H. A. MacGregor. More than in any other year the present Normal School class—you—has been called upon to exercise those excellent qualities of heart and mind which give to life the fullest meaning, to our profession intelligent planning and skill, and to our association mutual affection and happy memories. You have re¬ sponded whole-heartedly. The members of the Staff all join with me in ex¬ pressing our appreciation. We like you as individuals and friends and we re¬ spect you as a class—whole-heartedly. Some one has remarked that God must love the common man because He made so many of him. This school has endeavored to make active in your minds the idea that man is not common at all. Lower than God in that he cannot create, he is almost infinitely inventive and progressively unravels the mysteries of creation. Your business is to teach people not merely to read and to write but to understand. Exploitive purposes have played too great a part in educational policies. Nations and classes will war against each other until exploitation gives way to interdependence as an educational policy. We have confidence that you will seek to bring about such an atmosphere of under¬ standing and good will. The motto of your school—non inferiora secuti— means “following no mean task”. We wish you well. G. S. LORD.
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